I have alt+shift+f2 bound to "brutally murder the next thing I click on". Having problems with a game eating your mouse cursor? The game is now gone. Accidentally opened Compute_Last_Digit_of_Pi? It never happened. Program reinterprets X button as "show save dialogue"? Dead.

I have alt+shift+f2 bound to "brutally murder the next thing I click on". Having problems with a game eating your mouse cursor? The game is now gone. Accidentally opened Compute_Last_Digit_of_Pi? It never happened. Program reinterprets X button as "show save dialogue"? Dead.

I have alt+shift+f2 bound to "brutally murder the next thing I click on". Having problems with a game eating your mouse cursor? The game is now gone. Accidentally opened Compute_Last_Digit_of_Pi? It never happened. Program reinterprets X button as "show save dialogue"? Dead.

I have alt+shift+f2 bound to "brutally murder the next thing I click on". Having problems with a game eating your mouse cursor? The game is now gone. Accidentally opened Compute_Last_Digit_of_Pi? It never happened. Program reinterprets X button as "show save dialogue"? Dead.

I have alt+shift+f2 bound to "brutally murder the next thing I click on". Having problems with a game eating your mouse cursor? The game is now gone. Accidentally opened Compute_Last_Digit_of_Pi? It never happened. Program reinterprets X button as "show save dialogue"? Dead.

I have alt+shift+f2 bound to "brutally murder the next thing I click on". Having problems with a game eating your mouse cursor? The game is now gone. Accidentally opened Compute_Last_Digit_of_Pi? It never happened. Program reinterprets X button as "show save dialogue"? Dead.

Is that the same as or different than restart? Same question: reload?

One of these things is not like the others. One of these things isn't the same. Can you tell me which thing is not like the others? That's how to play this game.

Gateway is worse- they want you to accept the Win8 EULA before you can access the BIOS settings; on first power-on, the machine boots straight into the Microsoft license agreement, with no option to change settings or even boot from another device.

Looks like we've got another poddee coming off a decade-and-a-half hibernation..

I got it as a gift, or, yeah, it damn well would've gone straight back to the store..

After 2 hours on the phone with Gateway support (much of that on hold), they simply stated that you MUST accept the license agreement to access the BIOS (as the UEFI settings panel is on the "charms menu", whatever the hell that is). Wtf?

I ultimately discovered by chance that yanking the battery at that screen gives you a "failed to boot" screen with a way to enter the BIOS.

Looks like we've got another poddee coming off a decade-and-a-half hibernation..

I got it as a gift, or, yeah, it damn well would've gone straight back to the store..

After 2 hours on the phone with Gateway support (much of that on hold), they simply stated that you MUST accept the license agreement to access the BIOS (as the UEFI settings panel is on the "charms menu", whatever the hell that is). Wtf?

I ultimately discovered by chance that yanking the battery at that screen gives you a "failed to boot" screen with a way to enter the BIOS.

You spent upwards of two hours trying to find a way to avoid agreeing to an dubiously-enforceable clickwrap EULA (presumably so that you could install a different operating system and thereby remove any record of whether you agreed or not)?

You spent upwards of two hours trying to find a way to avoid agreeing to an dubiously-enforceable clickwrap EULA (presumably so that you could install a different operating system and thereby remove any record of whether you agreed or not)?

You spent upwards of two hours trying to find a way to avoid agreeing to an dubiously-enforceable clickwrap EULA (presumably so that you could install a different operating system and thereby remove any record of whether you agreed or not)?

I believe Dungeons and Dragons calls that "Lawful Good".

I was always Chaotic Neutral. I had a fanatical devotion to it, but I usually just ended up trying to murder every single thing we came across which would always result in my team dying pretty quickly.

I've heard it explained that good and evil in D&D is more of a scale of selfless to selfish. Evil characters aren't bad per se, they're self-serving; in the end they only care about number one. The lawful/chaotic part of it informs you more about their homicidal/vigilante tendencies, and the good/evil their motivations behind it.

Nope. If I was evil, I would pursue my own self-interest. Attacking level 27 NPCs when you're 5 minutes into a game is certainly not something that is in your own best interests. (However, it was pretty awesome when we managed to kill Elminster right out of the gate by convincing him to share a heroin needle with an HIV-infected junkie. We had a teammate with high charisma, an uncanny series of rolls and a very liberal DM.)

No, my only goal as chaotic neutral was to maximize the entropy of the universe, no matter what it took.

I've heard it explained that good and evil in D&D is more of a scale of selfless to selfish. Evil characters aren't bad per se, they're self-serving; in the end they only care about number one. The lawful/chaotic part of it informs you more about their homicidal/vigilante tendencies, and the good/evil their motivations behind it.

I have no idea if this is true.

Actually, the default interpretation of good and evil in D&D is absolute. At least, the way it is described in the players handbook.

I believe in some supplement somewhere there was a chapter on making good and evil relative. This presented such interesting problems as 'what happens if I *smite evil* on this paladin, whom I believe to be evil, but whom thinks of himself as good'.

Anyway, 'lawful good' can most easily be translated as 'lawful stupid'.

Perhaps this image will help you understand The Grid. I made it for a valentines contest a couple years ago, where you had to creatively complete the Shakespeare quote "Love sought is good, but...". I won a box of fancy-ass chocolates.

I've heard it explained that good and evil in D&D is more of a scale of selfless to selfish. Evil characters aren't bad per se, they're self-serving; in the end they only care about number one. The lawful/chaotic part of it informs you more about their homicidal/vigilante tendencies, and the good/evil their motivations behind it.

I have no idea if this is true.

Actually, the default interpretation of good and evil in D&D is absolute. At least, the way it is described in the players handbook.

I believe in some supplement somewhere there was a chapter on making good and evil relative. This presented such interesting problems as 'what happens if I *smite evil* on this paladin, whom I believe to be evil, but whom thinks of himself as good'.

Anyway, 'lawful good' can most easily be translated as 'lawful stupid'.

Only if the player is stupid (or unimaginative, I should say) and doesn't know any other way to play it.

You should read The Order of the Stick sometime. Roy, Durkon, Miko, and Hinjo are all Lawful Good, and they haev very different personalities and distinct character styles from each other. One of the four (not going to spoil it for those who haven't read it) is most definitely "Lawful Stupid," but the other three certainly are not.